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Government promotes energy efficiency projects: Shinde

New Delhi, Nov 4 (ANI): Union Minister of Power Sushil Kumar Shinde at the Economic Editors' Conference today announced that the Ministry of Power is promoting a company called Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) for implementation of energy efficiency in India.

The company will promote energy efficiency projects like Bachat Lamp Yojana, Agricultural Demand Side Management and Municipal Demand Side Management. It will also act as a Resource center for capacity building of State Development Agencies, Utilities, financial institutions, etc.peaking on the Economic Editors Conference, Shinde pointed out that the overall size of energy investment market under Energy Service Companies (ESCO) in India is 74,000 crores and till now, only five percent of the market has been tapped.

"India has huge potential for energy efficiency. An improvement of 20 percent energy efficiency can result in avoided capacity ddition of around 30,000 MW which amounts to an avoided investment of 1,20,000 crores," he said.(ANI)

Most Japanese want to end Iraq war support: Poll

Tokyo, Mar 15: More than two-thirds of Japanese want to end an air force mission backing up U.S.-led military activities in Iraq this summer, when the mandate for the mission expires, a newspaper poll said today.Sixty-nine percent of those polled said they wanted the troops pulled out, while 75 per cent said the war had been a mistake, the daily Asahi Shimbun said.Japan withdrew its 600 ground troops from southern Iraq last year after a non-combat reconstruction.....
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